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xiayun
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Gake no ue no Ponyo [Ponyo]
PonyoQuote: Ponyo (崖の上のポニョ Gake no Ue no Ponyo?, literally "Ponyo on the Cliff"), initially titled in English as Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, is a 2008 Japanese animated film by Studio Ghibli, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is Miyazaki's eighth film for Ghibli, and his tenth overall. The plot centers on a goldfish named Ponyo who befriends a five-year-old human boy, Sōsuke, and wants to become a human girl.
The film has won several awards, including the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. It was released in Japan on July 19, 2008, August 14, 2009 in the US and Canada and February 12, 2010 in the UK. The film reached #9 in the U.S. box office charts for its opening weekend.
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Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:42 am |
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snack
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Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:18 pm Posts: 12159
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Re: Ponyo
I will show you all the review I just gave to Box
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Chippy
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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Re: Ponyo
Could you and Yoshue be MORE boring?
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Loyal
"no rank"
Joined: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:43 pm Posts: 24502
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Re: Ponyo
Am I alone in thinking the Miyazak films are kinda lame?
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Argos
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Joined: Sat May 13, 2006 2:20 pm Posts: 7952 Location: Wherever he went, including here, it was against his better judgment.
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Re: Ponyo
You are never alone in being wrong.
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jmovies
Let's Call It A Bromance
Joined: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:22 pm Posts: 12333
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Re: Ponyo
loyalfromlondon wrote: Am I alone in thinking the Miyazak films are kinda lame? How dare you.
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Loyal
"no rank"
Joined: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:43 pm Posts: 24502
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Re: Ponyo
Argos wrote: You are never alone in being wrong.
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Nebs
Joined: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:01 pm Posts: 6385
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Re: Ponyo
Endings of them usually are.
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Alex Y.
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Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:47 pm Posts: 5706
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Re: Ponyo
B, nothing special but not bad
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xiayun
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:41 pm Posts: 25109 Location: San Mateo, CA
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Re: Ponyo
Excellent. The story is not as complex as Spirited Away and is much more kid-friendly, but the images Miyazaki creates are simply unparalleled. I was immersed in its fantasy world. A-.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Ponyo
I love Ponyo! With a return to his earlier naturalistic style and simple storytelling, Miyazaki has crafted another beautiful film to bookend his work in his masterpiece Totoro. Ponyo is an elegantly told tale of love as experienced by children, with only a faint overtone of the legendary forces at work beneath the waves. As much as I love the frightening majesty of Miyazaki's later period with Princess Mononoke and the glorious epiphany that is Spirited Away - - Miyazaki truly steals my heart with his minimalist narratives in Totoro, Kiki, and now Ponyo. I adore that fact that Miyazaki is a daring enough filmmaker that he can make a movie in which almost nothing happens. The artwork is amazing, beyond even my high expectations - - the water with it's many motions and emotions is extraordinary. Simply put: Ponyo is a peak experience in this moviegoer's life. out of
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Michael A
Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:48 am Posts: 6245
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Re: Ponyo
loyalfromlondon wrote: Am I alone in thinking the Miyazak films are kinda lame? you also dislike amy adams. You know what loyalton, just when I thought we could be friends.
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spencer101f
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Joined: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:26 am Posts: 91 Location: Tally Ho!
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Re: Ponyo
Rather cliche, but all in all, it was a cute little film. It's nowhere near as good as Spirited Away, though.
Grade: A-/B+
(Still not sure as of right now...)
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Jiffy
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Joined: Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:27 pm Posts: 6145 Location: New York
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Re: Ponyo
loyalfromlondon wrote: Am I alone in thinking the Miyazak films are kinda lame? Have you seen Princess Mononoke?
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JURiNG
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Re: Ponyo
It's fun. It's cute. It's pretty (though, the least impressive amongst his works). Overall, a big improvement from Howl's Moving Castle. A-
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Mr. Lobotomy
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up - I got so high I can't stand up
Joined: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:21 am Posts: 993
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Nebs wrote: Endings of them usually are. Yes. The first half of Ponyo is fantastic, but it all goes downhill from there. Overall it's still enjoyable and another solid film from Miyazaki. B-
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Argos
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Re: Ponyo
I am afraid I have to agree with Bradley Witherberry. I only wish I were a child again, less haunted by wariness and reason.
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_axiom
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Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:50 am Posts: 16163 Location: Croatia
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Re: Ponyo
7/10 -> B-
It's very cute and lovely, but it lacks a better story (the idea is OK, but I don't like how everything turned out in the end...).
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Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
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Re: Ponyo
Princess Mononoke - 10 Spirited Away - 10 Howl's Moving Castle - 9.5 Ponyo - 9 Castle in the Sky - 9 My Neighbor Totoro - 9 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - 8.5 Kiki's Delivery Service - 8.5 The Castle of Cagliostro - 8 Porco Rosso - 8
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El Maskado
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Re: Ponyo
What an annoying ass and grating Ponyo is. I wish the movie would have ended with someone stomping on her when she was in fish form. The whole message of the movie was lost when they could have easily made it more interesting if it was more about the father and the ecological message. Ponyo seems very selfish in that regard
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BK
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Re: Ponyo
What the hell were you all watching?
Not a good introduction to Miyazaki I must say because this is pretty bloody bad.
There's little to no storyline and Ponyo is like Murato said, annoying and selfish. Sosuke promises he'll love her forever? WTF am I watching? He's a 5 year old kid.
The sorcerer dad was so irrelevant they might as well not have put him in, not to mention how stupid most of these characters are, who lets a 5 year old kid wander aimlessly during a natural disaster? I've never heard a Japanese kid call their parents by their names either, much less another kid doing the same.
The visuals weren't that great either, Ponyo's mother is disproportionate most of the time, artistic liberties or not, and you had ships and other objects being rendered or coloured in one block without any shading, it looked like a 2 year old drew them.
I'm hoping that Mononoke and Spirited Away are better because I was sorely disappointed by the crap that this was.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Ponyo
Cretin.
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BK
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Re: Ponyo
Bradley Witherberry wrote: Cretin. You're one to say aren't you?
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Argos
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Re: Ponyo
Well, Bradley is right on this one.
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BK
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Re: Ponyo
Argos wrote: Well, Bradley is right on this one. Everyone has their own opinion. No opinion can be wrong. edit: But, anyway, one shouldn't dismiss another as a 'cretin' when the Ponyo storyline relies on Sosuke loving her eternally otherwise the world will fuck up. Eternal love at 5 years old? You'd have to be a buffoon to even consider that you've met your match at 5. Hardly anyone remembers anything at 5 years old anyway, but what, excuse it because it's a kids movie? Then they shouldn't say the world will fuck up if he breaks his promise. Love as a child? Let's see, how does Ponyo fall in love with Sosuke? He thinks she's a fish but she spouts out I LOVE YOU immediately. Real love? Fuck off.
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